At first the caravan planned to leave the village the next morning and continue their journey but both the merchants and the guards were way too tired after encountering a S rank monster. So they wanted to take one day's rest before going out again. The guild employees, who were in charge of the main materials also agreed to this as they were also tired and thought that hasty going to the capital might create some suspicion.
Just like that alongside the whole tired crew one another member who was not tired at all also got a holiday. Yes, that was Elena. At the first half of the day Elena spent the time by playing with the children of the village. Then when the children's playtime was over, Elena thought that to spend the rest of the time before lunch, she could go and visit other villages in the vicinity.
So she went straight to action. There were about 5 more villages nearby and she wanted to visit all of them. All the villages had their unique speciality. The village Elena was currently living in had animal husbandry as its speciality. The closest village where Elena went next had farming as its main speciality. It was responsible for supplying grains and vegetables for other nearby villages. This village was very beautiful with golden coloured fields for as long as the eyes can see.
The third one she visited, had sewing as its main job. It was in charge of providing the villages with clothes. Elena was also quite impressed by their skills. Even tho the design was very simple and ordinary, if one studies it closely, one could see that there was a lot of hard work behind that. That simple design also had its unique beauty. Elena wasn't able to resist herself and bought quite a lot of them. And even changed into one right away. The village head was even ready to give her all the clothes for free as the whole village was inspired by Elena's incredible beauty. Elena obviously refused and even let herself become a model for some of the designers in the village.
The fourth one was a village of craftsmen. If any of the villages needed someone to repair something then they would come to this village. There were masons, builders, wood crafters, blacksmiths and more living here. This village was only a bit more wealthy looking if compared to the other ones she visited. She had some conversation with the craftsmen and they were all amazed by her deep knowledge in this field. They requested, almost begged Elena to teach them a few more things and Elena did that without refusing as she felt genuine crafters will from them. She also enjoyed the process of teaching someone something that she wasn't very good at not long ago.
After visiting these three villages Elena noticed that it was almost lunchtime. Today she wasn't going to cook as the villagers wanted Elena to eat their traditional dishes. She was also quite excited about that so she quickly returned to the village postponing the visits of remaining villages to afternoon time.
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Elena loves both cooking and eating tasty food. So, she was in bliss after having a very good lunch. The traditional dishes from this village were mostly meat dishes cooked with several special herbs and spices. The cooking method of the meat was also extraordinary. Elena wanted to learn the recipe and the cooking process and the wives of the village happily agreed. After fulfilling her desires to the fullest Elena left for the fifth village.
This one was the smallest village among the six. Most of the people living here were hunters. There was another small forest other than the wicked forest and that forest was close to this village. But Elena's visit here was not comfortable like it was with the other ones. As soon as she entered the village she saw a few children throwing stones at a lone girl and the adults around them watching that scene without doing anything. That girl was hurt and bleeding.
Elena had a very short temper, especially for this type of things. Even something less extreme than this would make her reach the boiling point. First she cast a barrier protecting the girl and heal her wounds. Next she released a pressuring aura that made all the nearby people to freeze up. Then she used mind effecting magic on one of the onlookers and asked about the situation.
The hurt girl's name was Shuri. She was the daughter of the strongest hunter inside the village. When giving birth to Shuri, her mother passed away. And a few days ago, her father also went to the forest to collect a rare flower to gift her as this was her favourite flower and he never returned after that.
Then the villagers accused Shuri to be some kind of bad luck bringing demon who killed both her father and mother by giving them bad luck. Getting falsely accused like that Shuri loudly protested against it and for that reason the other children of the village thought to taught her a lesson and started throwing stones at her.
Elena was disgusted by the villagers behaviour. This village did have a bad reputation in the other villages but Elena didn't think that the condition was this bad. She did thought of destroying the village once and for all but finally decided to abandon that idea. It would be too cruel and their were actually some villagers who actually tried to protest but were silenced by other senior villagers. So destroying the whole village would be bad for them too.
First Elena searched for the news about Shuri's father and she found out that he was actually dead. And the main reason the hunters were making that scene was because they found out about this and wanted to kick her out of the village to grab the property of the strongest hunter.
Elena was so angry that she started smiling slightly. She planned to use a special type of magic on them that she had used minimum amount of time before. And that magic is curse magic. She was going to curse all the villagers who tried it harm Shuri. She used a special curse {Payback to the Pain giver Regularly}. This curse took effect when someone had caused some kind of pain to someone. That person would feel 10 times the given pain at the same time of the day when the pain was given, everyday.
After that Elena was too angry to visit the last village and she went back to the first village but now along with a new companion.
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